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The following letter index was extracted and entered by Edward Bischoff.
All films are available at GRHS headquarters in Bismarck ND. A copy of an
individual letter can be obtained for a small fee by
sending the name, film number, year, volume, issue and page number to Rachel Schmidt at
headquarters. The letters can be ordered either
by mail or e-mail.

A little history on these papers:
Provided by Michael Rempfer

The Eureka Rundschau (started in 1915) and was the successor to the Eureka Post.
Its editor was Gustav Mauser, an immigrant from Hoffnungstal. In June 1927 it
merged with Das Nordlicht (which began publication in 1916) and became the
Eureka Rundschau und Das Nordlicht with editorial offices in Bismarck. A year
later this paper merged with the Mandan Volkszeitung (edited by Selz immigrant
John Brendel since its founding in 1926) and became the Dakota Rundschau.
Mauser and Brendel, now on the same editorial staff, didn't see eye to eye, and
Mauser jumped ship to the Staats-Anzeiger. Late in 1932 the Dakota Rundschau
was absorbed by the Dakota Freie Presse which also retained the services of
Brendel. You can begin to see how intertwined things are and why regular
correspondents to the papers might be found in any one of them, depending on
their loyalty to the paper or to an editor or to the editor's politics. Another
factor was where the newspaper circulated and if the Soviets allowed it into
Russia, sometimes a whimisical decision, sometimes based on editorial stands
taken by the paper. I've collected information about my home town and my
grandparents' Russian home village in each one of these papers; therefore,
I think they all should be eventually and systematically indexed for the benefit
of others.

Notes:

* some Issues are missing

Lines with a ampersand(&) in column one have been translated and posted to the Letter Archive.